After coming out of the hospital, Mina Hattori looked at the instructions on the medicine bottle and said, "Ayako, have you remembered everything the doctor ordered?"
Chang Hongling said absently: "What are the instructions?"
"You didn't even listen carefully when the doctor was talking just now. Fortunately, I'm here!"
Chang Hongling said: "I'm kidding you, the doctor told me to avoid food while I'm taking the medicine. My diet shouldn't be too greasy, spicy, or seafood, right?"
Hattori Hikoo thought for a while and said, "There is one more important thing you didn't say!"
"What?"
"You must not drink alcohol. The doctor said it twice."
Chang Hongling sighed and said: "It seems that I am going to live the life of an ascetic monk. I will boil cabbage in water every day."
Hattori Mina rolled her eyes and said, "If I were you, I would eat a big meal and eat all the foods I like before I have a dietary restriction."
"You have a great idea! I'm going to have a big meal right away!"
"Okay, okay, where to eat?"
"A new Sichuan restaurant has opened on Fukushima Road. It includes seafood, spicy food, and meat."
"You admire American style so much, I thought you would choose a Western restaurant."
"Eating Western food is just a break. It's okay to eat it once in a while. In fact, the most delicious food is Chinese food."
Hattori Mina blinked and said, "Brother always says that Japanese food is the most delicious food in the world. Why don't you contradict him?"
"Do you want us to quarrel?" Chang Hongling said with a smile.
While talking, the two got into the car, and Hattori Mina ordered: "Go to Fukushima Road."
"yes!"
Twenty minutes later, the car arrived at a Sichuan restaurant in the middle of Fukushima Road.
Chang Hongling said to the driver: "It takes a long time to eat, so you don't have to wait. Go back."
"Madam, do you want me to pick you up?"
"No, we'll take a rickshaw back later."
"yes."
Watching the car go away, Chang Hongling and Hattori Mina walked into the restaurant. It was just 11 o'clock and there were very few customers.
"You two, please come in." The waiter greeted the guests enthusiastically.
Hattori Mina said: "If you have any signature dishes, bring them all. We are going to have a big meal today!"
Chang Hongling tugged on Hattori Mina's skirt and whispered: "You are a girl, please pay attention to your words and deeds."
Hattori Mina stuck out her tongue and said, "Fortunately, I'm going out to eat with you. If my brother was here, he would have scolded me."
"Miss, there are more than twenty kinds of signature dishes in this shop. There are only two of you, so two or three dishes are enough for you." The waiter put the menu on the table.
Hattori Mina opened the recipe, flipped through the pages, and said: "...How to make red oil ear slices?"
"Cut the cooked pig ears into thin slices, mix salt, white sugar, red oil chili, and sesame oil into a sauce, then add shredded green onions. It is a spicy and delicious cold dish." There were not many guests around, so the waiter explained patiently.
"Sounds good, let's have one...and another one of golden sea cucumber, um...steamed duck with ginkgo, stir-fried winter bamboo shoots, fish with ginseng and wheat...Ayako, did you order too much?"
Chang Hongling smiled and said, "Since you like it, you'll want it."
Guy: "Just a moment, you two. I'll be there soon."
Hattori Mina held her chin, thought seriously for a while, and said: "Seafood, fish, spicy, these are all...it seems like there is something missing..."
"Wine." Chang Hongling said.
"Yes, Ayako, don't you really like drinking? It doesn't matter if you drink a little."
"Will you drink with me?"
Hattori Mina waved her hands repeatedly and said: "Please spare me, I don't dare to drink anymore."
"Once bitten, twice shy."
"You can drink it yourself, I'll accompany you with tea instead of wine."
"That's so boring. Do you know there is a Chinese proverb about this?"
"What proverb?"
"One person will not drink, and two people will not gamble.
"
"How to explain it?"
"A person drinks alcohol, and the more he drinks, the unhappy he becomes. The purpose of gambling is to win money. Two people gamble against each other, one loses and the other wins, and the end result is an unhappy ending."
"It really makes sense..."
"So, let's have tea."
Hattori Mina's eyes lit up and she said, "How about I find someone to drink with you?"
"Jiang Xinyu?"
"Yes, do you think it's okay?"
"Mina, why do you have to make me drink?"
"Aren't you going to stop eating food soon? I want you to try everything so that you won't have to drool over our greedy food later." Hattori Mina said with a smile.
Chang Hongling said: "Then you can ask Jiang Xinyu to come. He will also be looking for a place to eat at noon."
"I think so too."
Hattori Mina got up and came to the counter and said, "Can I borrow a phone?"
"Of course, please do as you please." The boss took out the phone from the counter.
Hattori Mina dialed the number in the detective team captain's office: "Hey, I'm looking for Jiang Xinyu."
"Captain Jiang is not here." Zhao Yuhu was on the other end of the phone.
"Where did he go?"
"Are you Miss Mina?"
"it's me."
"Oh, Captain Jiang went home for dinner."
"OK, thanks."
After hanging up the phone, Hattori Mina dialed a few numbers. The phone rang a few times, and Jiang Xinyu's voice came from the receiver: "Hello, who is this?"
"it's me."
"What's up?"
"Did you have meal?"
"Not yet, the food is being heated."
"Ayako and I are at the Sichuan Restaurant on Fukushima Road. Do you want to come over and eat together?"
"I've been driving all morning and I feel a little tired. I don't want to move a step. You can eat."
"...Xinyu, don't eat yet, wait for me!" Hattori Mina put down the phone and said to the boss: "Prepare a food box for me. I will pack the food and take it away."
Half an hour later, Hattori Mina and Chang Hongling knocked on the door of Jiang Xinyu's house.
Jiang Xinyu greeted politely and said: "Hello, Mrs. Hattori."